D. Laney
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Annual Meeting of the Common Shareholders of Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. My name is Randy Laney, and I’m the Chair of the Algonquin Board of Directors. Joining me today are Rod West, Chief Executive Officer; Robert Stefani, Chief Financial Officer; and Ryan Elger, Corporate Secretary.
Before beginning the formal session of the meeting, I would like to take a moment to thank and recognize the other — the contributions of the other directors of Algonquin, Brett Carter, Chair of Human Resources and Compensation Committee; Amee Chande, Chair of the Risk Committee; David Levenson; Chris Lopez; Gavin Molinelli; Dilek Samil, Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee; DeAnn Walker; and Rod West, the CEO of the corporation.
On behalf of Algonquin’s shareholders, I’d like to thank each of these directors for their commitment and dedicated service to the corporation. Chris Huskilson, former CEO of the corporation, retired from the Board in November of ’25 after 5 years of service in his most recent term. And Dan Goldberg, Chair of the Corporate Governance, is not standing for reelection and retiring from the Board after 4 years of service. We want to thank each of them for their valuable contributions to the Board over the years, and we wish them the very best.
I’d now like to address a few procedural matters. Given the virtual format of today’s meeting, we would request that registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders would have specific questions — who have a specific question on a formal item of business, make such written submissions now, clearly identifying the applicable items of